Dash Starlight
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| Dash Starlight | |
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| Saber | Single |
| Style | Yellow Purist (Clean) |
| Affiliation(s) | The Jedi Academy |
| Gender | Male |
| Location | The Netherlands |
| Padawans | Ken, _Muro_, Tigerclaw, Drogan Draconite, Zuka, Sho Koon, DrunkenJedi, Laziana, Johauna |
Dash Starlight joined The Jedi Academy in 2004 and was taught as a Padawan by Virtue. He mastered the Yellow Single Saber stance and became the first Jedi Academy Knight to be instated after the Staff purge. Several months later he became a Jedi Academy Trainer, and now teaches Basic Yellow Stance, Counterstyle Duelling and both the dark and light sides of the Force.
In April 2009 Dash was promoted into the rank of a Jedi Academy Master.
The Early Days
Dash Starlight joined the Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy community in August, 2004 after a friend got him interested in the game. Dash Starlight regularly visited public JA+ servers with Hellmouth and the Angels HQ being amongst his favorites. He was met with criticism right off the bat due to his playing style. This was because Dash Starlight enjoyed using the medium stance, which wasn’t appreciated by everyone.
During this time he met a player nicknamed Padawan who turned out to be Jaina D’Kana. She told Dash Starlight about the existence of the Jedi Academy after he expressed his interest in enhancing his lightsabercombat abilities with a focus on the medium stance. He then discovered a place with a most special atmosphere and a vast amount of knowledge and skills.
Dash Starlight took his time to get familiar with the Jedi Academy before looking for a master. He decided to contact Virtue concerning padawanship, because he could play during the weekends only and was therefore missing a lot of classes. Under the tutelage of Virtue, Dash Starlight started developing into an effective medium stance purist, but also learned about movement, Force and basic gunning.
Knighthood
Promotion to Jedi Academy Trainer
Becoming a Jedi Academy Master
Retirement
Playing Style
As a medium stance purist, Dash Starlight focuses on it and uses it nearly exclusively. His style is based around taking full advantage of the sabering system to cause intentional knockbacks or parries. This closely resembles Virtue’s style.
Dash Starlight believes that Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy contains a number of bugs that can be used to enhance one’s performance as the game was rushed for release. He chooses to avoid these exploits, however, because it gives the user an unfair advantage over an opponent and because it would alter the gameplay and thus break the gaming experience.